Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:59:37 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@comcast.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Chris Gilbert <Chris@lainos.org>, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Subject: Re: ATI on FreeBSD! FireGL Linux Driver Port Message-ID: <200512270059.41578.krinklyfig@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200512270839.35248.Chris@lainos.org> References: <000001c60aa3$06943100$642a15ac@smiley> <200512270033.25933.krinklyfig@comcast.net> <200512270839.35248.Chris@lainos.org>
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On Tue 27 Dec 05 00:39, Chris Gilbert <Chris@lainos.org> wrote: > Sounds good! > > Also, make sure to add a couple of xorg.conf lines in regards to this > as explained in the README. > > By default, it will try to involve Xv with its GL bits and fail, > therefore not exposing proper Xv acceleration. (xvinfo will report no > available adapters) > > By adding the following two lines, the correct "GL-less" accelerated > behavior will be restored: (These go in the "Device" section) > > Option "VideoOverlay" "on" > Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" Yeah, I got that from the README. Even so, thanks for the heads up. - jt > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 08:33, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > On Tue 27 Dec 05 00:22, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 00:10 -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > > > On Mon 26 Dec 05 22:30, Chris Gilbert <Chris@lainos.org> wrote: > > > > > Sure! > > > > > > > > > > Below is a support list based on what ATI reports the driver > > > > > supports. > > > > > > > > > > Everything here should work as advertised, but to be sure, if > > > > > you have success with a particular card then let me know and > > > > > I'll mark the support as confirmed. > > > > > > > > > > It supports: (Put into a sane order, as opposed to what is on > > > > > the ATI site) > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > Radeon® 9600 series > > > > > > > > I have an ATI Radeon 9600XT, and I'm proud to report it's been > > > > working for the last hour with no problems. I can live without > > > > the 3D acceleration in FreeBSD, but 2D acceleration helps > > > > significantly. Finally using my card's memory instead of the > > > > system's. > > > > > > Hmm. X.Org should be supporting the same 2d acceleration for > > > 9600s as fglrx. Was that not the case? > > > > Well, rather, it seems to be working much better now. The radeon > > X.Org driver never did seem to do 2D accel very well, at least in > > my experience, though the logs tell me it was working. It seems > > like it's actually working now, though I guess what I said > > previously wasn't precise. > > > > - jt
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